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I. Core Competencies for Map Librarianship

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Last link verification: March 21, 2026

I.A. Organizational Management

I.A.1. Management (Score: 3.12)

Strategic Planning

• ACRL: Conducting a Map Collection Review: A Workbook to Help You on the Journey (Reyes, 2023)

Project Management

• WAML Map Librarian’s Toolbox: Grant Writing and Management (2021)

Fiscal Management

Fundraising

I.A.2. Marketing and Outreach [Priority: High] (Score: 3.58)

Intra-institutional marketing and inter-institutional marketing

Online Engagement

I.B. Resource Management

I.B.1. Collection Development (Score: 3.28)

Acquisitions

Collection Management

• MAGIRT: Helpful Hints for Small Map Collections (Larsgaard, 1997)
• WAML: Weeding paper collections (Ross, 2023)
• MAGIRT: A Guide to the Cartographic Products of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) (Shular, 2006)
• WAML: Federal Depository Library Program (Dyke, 2021)

I.B.2. Collection Maintenance and Organization (Score: 3.10)

Facilities and Equipment

• WAML: Map Cabinet Weight (2023; derived from Drazinowsky, 1975)

Preservation of resources (print and digital)

• IFLA: Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare and Unique Materials (2015)

Collection Access and Maintenance

• MAGIRT: Map Collection Security Guidelines (2010)

I.C. Information Services

I.C.1. Reference and Instruction [Priority: High] (Score: 3.58)

Reference

• ALA/RUSA: Guidelines for Behavioral Performance of Reference and Information Service Providers

Map Library Reference Interviews

• Reference Interviews: Getting Things Right (Coonin & Levine, 2012)The Reference Librarian
• Remote reference consultations are here to stay (Reed, 2021) Communications in Information Literacy

Resource Discovery

Geographic and Cartographic Principles

Production and Publication

Aerial Photography and Satellite Imagery

• WAML: Map Librarian's Toolbox/ Aerial Photography (Ross, 2024)

User Education

• WAML: Cartographic Resource Instruction (Physical Maps) (Contributor "geolbrow", 2024)

Data Services

Discovery of spatial data

• WAML Toolbox: Geospatial Data (Jablonski et. al. 2022)

Use of GIS software

• GLOW: INSTATS What is GIS? (Bearman, 2025)
• GLOW: COCC Intro to Geospatial Science and GIS (Kennelly,2023)

Metadata

Data Management Planning

Data Preservation

Promoting Best Practices through workshops, videos, and consultations

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